ChatGPT is rolling out ads, which means AI visibility now has a paid lane and an earned lane. The earned side, getting cited because you've published genuinely useful, authoritative writing under your own name, is still the one that compounds. This piece walks through how the two interact and how to measure what's actually working.
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Nick Carroll builds publishing and digital identity tools for lawyers and writes about that work here on The Legal Examiner.
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